I started working with Close to my Heart in November and I am LOVING it! I'm just a lowly consultant and struggling to get it all going but I really adore the company, the products, and being able to justify doing creative things everyday! I have been hosting classes at my home and this set of pages is from my February class. The paper I used was from Close to My Heart's La Vie En Rose line- which is sumptuous black and white designs with bright and bold roses. Here are my detailed directions and supply list if you want to make one of your own!
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| The Left Page |
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| The Right Page |
2 sheets Whisper cardstock (smooth gray)
2 sheets La Vie En Rose (double-sided paper)
1 sheet Hollyhock cardstock (smooth pink)
2 sheets White Daisy cardstock (white)
Black Shimmer Trim
Inks in the following colors: black, hollyhock, pear, and slate
Bloom stamp set
Cricut Art-Booking cartridge and stamp set
You can find all these materials on my website:
www.melaniescraps.ctmh.com
Aren't these pages pretty? (my horrible cell phone pictures just don't do the colors justice)
To make the pages: start with by cutting all your major pieces:
Cut two 4-inch-wide strips from the rose paper- save the remaining half for cards later!
Cut two 2-inch-wide strips from the hollyhock cardstock
Cut two 12-inch-long strips of Black Shimmer Trim
Cut your White Daisy paper- one piece should be 6 1/2in x 8 1/2in, the other piece should be 6 3/4in x 8 3/4in
Cut one 7 x 8 rectangle from your rose paper and one 4x7 rectangle.
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| Cutting the rose paper using my trusty Fiskers paper trimmer! |
Now that your pieces are cut, it's time for the fun part!! I like to lay my pages out side by side and make sure that everything lines up just perfectly- but I recently got a new mat to work on- which has a ruler so that I can now measure it perfectly! So yay!
The first pieces to get affixed to the page are the black 4 inch strips- they go 1/2 inch from the bottom of the page- then line up the hollyhock strip- another 1/2inch up from the black strip. Finally, line up the Shimmer Trim another 1/2 inch up from there! Check out this picture: (full disclosure: to do this tutorial, I had run out of shimmer trim so I had to substitute this pretty gold and black ribbon)
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| (forgive the wrinkly finger and not even polished nails....it's winter) |
So make sure you do this to both pages- using Whisper as your base paper, of course. If you used the ruler- you can be certain that both pages will have the same spacing! (or if you don't care you don't have to measure- just eyeball it)
Your next task is to place your 2 rose rectangles in the upper left or right corner of your page:
The larger rose rectangle goes on your LEFT page on the LEFT upper side: it should overlap your black strip a little bit:
I left about a quarter of an inch of Whisper showing around my large rectangle- but you could always place it flush with the edge of the cardstock!
The smaller rectangle goes on the RIGHT upper corner of the RIGHT page: also with a quarter inch clearance on each upper side and not overlapping any of the black strip:
Check out the acrylic stamp I have laid there- this is a gorgeous lace-look-alike stamp from Close to my Heart's Cricut ArtBooking collection.
I wanted to add a little pop to the side with less rose paper- so I decided to put a little lace decoration using that stamp- you could use a different stamp, a half of a doily, or even use a lace stencil!
Before I stamp on my Whisper paper, however, I must finish placing my cut paper- the white daisy cardstock is designed to hold 2 4 x 6 pictures each without cropping- I placed my cardstock to house vertical pictures, but you can position it any way you want!
Time for the best part!
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| What you need for stamping this awesome layout! |
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| Starting with the flower: use hollyhock and ink up that flat flower-shaped stamp: this will provide the background color of the rose. Stamp it on a piece of your White Daisy Cardstock. |
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Ok- so the first one I did (bottom) didn't turn out so good- but I inked it up again and BAM! Perfection!!! |
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Now for the outline- inked that up with Black... |
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Lined up the outline to the background- and voila! Perfect rose! |
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| Now for the leaves- I inked up the background in pear- so nice- |
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| Inked the outlines in black- you could use a darker green or light brown- but I really wanted mine to pop |
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| Here's the finished leaf! Note that I didn't get it quite perfect- which is ok! I actually love the whimsical look it has! |
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| Fussy-cut those and now you have perfect flower embellishment :) I adhered the rose with a little 3D tape and slid the leaf under it to give it more dimension. |
I used the Close to my Heart ArtBooking cartridge and the corresponding stamp- I cut out my perfectly-sized shape out of the White Daisy cardstock and then stamped my journaling block- and BAM! Done.
Then I added pictures and some small embellishments:
Finished Product!!
Thanks for reading!
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